Improvement in ties for cotton-bales



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

EDXVARD GARRETT, O F N'EYV ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN TIES FOR COTTON-BALES.-

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 24,] I2, dated May 24,1859.

To all whom it may concern) Be it known that I, EDWARD GARRETT, of thecity of New Orleans, State of Louisiana, have made a new and usefulImprovement in Ties of Iron Bands for Cotton-Bales; and I hereby declarethe following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof,reference ,being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters ofreference marked thereon, making a part of this specification, the sameletters being used to designate the same parts shown in the respectivefigures.

Figure 1 is a side or top view. Fig. 2 is an edge View taken from line Xin Fig. 1, which is sectional in part.

The ends of the band are marked A and B, and both pass through "the.mortise o in plate a. This plate has two mortises, marked, respectively,o and i. The end A is first passed through mortise 0, then through 6, asseen by Fig. 2, which makes the permanent fastening of end A to plate a.The changes to be made in the length of the band are effected throughend B. Prior to this end being passed through mortise o the plate 0,having mortise s, is placed 1 on this end, and after the end has beenpassed through mortise o it is drawn back, which forms a hook, and againpassed through morand again passed through mortise s, to make the tie,as has-been stated.

After this my description, what I claim as new, and desire to securebyLetters Patent, is-

The combination of the two plates at and c,

when made and arranged as or substantially as has been set forth, toform a tie for iron bands for baling cotton or forsirnilar purposes.

EDWARD GARRETT.

'Vitnesses:

FRANCIS ARMSTRONG, DAVID M. FOWLER.

